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- LEED gold LGBT senior complex provides homes to the homeless Wed, 3 Nov 21, 2:30amAlthough homelessness is a difficult problem to completely eliminate, one way to combat it is to provide more housing options. KFA recently completed a huge housing complex in Los Angeles, California designed to provide for...
- LEED Platinum housing for the homeless takes over a formerly vacant L.A. lot Sat, 7 Jul 18, 7:00amLos Angeles-based design practice Michael Maltzan Architecture has transformed a vacant suburban lot into the Crest Apartments, a LEED Platinum-certified permanent supportive housing center that assists homeless individuals...
- 3D-printed pod homes for the homeless could hang from NYC buildings Wed, 22 Nov 17, 10:04pmCreative agency Framlab has proposed a new type of architecture for housing New York City’s growing homeless population. Called Homed, the temporary housing solution comprises partly 3D-printed hexagonal pods that use scaffolding...
- 3D-printed pod homes for the homeless could cling to NYC buildings Wed, 22 Nov 17, 10:04pmCreative agency Framlab has proposed a type of parasitic architecture for housing New York City’s growing homeless population. Called Homed, the temporary housing solution comprises partly 3D-printed hexagonal pods that...
- Life-saving LifeArk snaps together like LEGO to provide emergency off-grid housing Mon, 28 Aug 17, 8:45pmArchitect Charles Wee didn’t have grand plans to save the world—but that’s exactly what his incredible LifeArk could do. Designed for disaster relief, LifeArk is a prefabricated, modular building system for quickly...
- Tiny House Nation's Zack Giffin will teach veterans to build their own homes Sat, 16 Jul 16, 1:52amThere are nearly 50,000 homeless veterans every night, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nonprofit Operation Tiny Home (OTH) decided to help veterans find a solution through tiny homes. Now...
- SquareChange builds housing for homeless children one donated square foot at a time Wed, 23 Dec 15, 7:30amSquareChangeTM Housing Homeless Kids “One Square Foot at a Time” (SquareChangeTM is a non-profit foundation.) December 18, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE $2 HOUSE THAT (YOU) HELPED BUILD. Sometimes huge problems have...
- Warmpod empowers communities to provide portable, disaster-proof shelter for the homeless Wed, 14 Oct 15, 6:45amLast week, I completed the first Warmpod and it aims to encourage the distribution of small portable modular emergency structures via teaching folks to build their own units...
- A-Kamp47 Vertical Urban Campground Provides Subversive Shelter for the Homeless in France Wed, 11 Dec 13, 4:19amStéphane Malka began designing this stealth camp back in 2009 and finally was able to install it September of 2013. The installation is based on a couple rules, the first being a new law in France that says you can't kick...
- Oma Village: Blu Homes Teams Up with Californian Non-Profit to Create Affordable Prefab Housing Fri, 19 Oct 12, 1:40amCalifornia and Massachusetts-based prefab home company Blu Homes just announced that they have teamed with non-profit Homeward Bound of Marin to provide permanent, supportive housing for low-income families in Marin County,...
- Modern Richardson Apartments Provide Low Income Housing In the Heart of San Francisco Wed, 29 Feb 12, 4:37amRead the rest of Modern Richardson Apartments Provide Low Income Housing In the Heart of San Francisco Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", affordable housing, David Baker...